In 1517 the Clan Gunn supported the Clan Sutherland in defeating the Clan Mackay at the Battle of Torran Dubh.

Another tomb within the gardens is that of Sikander Lodi, which is similar to Mohammed Shah's tomb, though without the chhatris, it was built by his son Ibrahim Lodi in 1517, the last of Sultan of Delhi from Lodi dynasty, as he was defeated by Babur, First battle of Panipat in 1526, this laying the foundation of the Mughal Empire.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas.

The peninsula was governed as part of Egypt under the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1260 until 1517, when the Ottoman Sultan, Selim the Grim, defeated the Egyptians at the Battles of Marj Dabiq and al-Raydaniyya, and incorporated Egypt into the Ottoman Empire.

Nevertheless, around that time early 16th century Polish geographer Maciej of Miechów in his influential Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis ( 1517 ) argued that there were no mountains in Eastern Europe at all, challenging the point of view of some authors of Classical antiquity, popular during the Renaissance.

The protests against the corruption emanating from Rome began in earnest when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for a reopening of the debate on the sale of indulgences and the authority to absolve sin and remit one from purgatory.

In response to concerns about misconduct from some servants of the church, in 1517 Martin Luther read his Ninety-Five Theses on the topic of indulgences in the church courtyard at Wittenberg.

The ordinary income of the pope for the year 1517 had been reckoned at about 580, 000 ducats, of which 420, 000 came from the States of the Church, 100, 000 from annates, and 60, 000 from the composition tax instituted by Sixtus IV.

* Bridget of York ( 1480 – 1517 ), nun at Dartford Priory, Kent

On October 31, 1517, Luther nailed his 95 theses against the selling of indulgences at the door of the All Saints ', the Castle Church, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

Even to this day, the two bells in the church's belltower, named Maria and Salvator and cast in 1517 by Hendrick de Tremonia of Dordrecht, are rung every evening at nine o ' clock.

A youthful portrait by Andrea del Sarto c. 1517 is conserved at the Uffizi.

In October 1517, seventeen-year-old Charles I arrived in Asturias at the Bay of Biscay.

The Portuguese abandoned these settlements at around the year 1517, following defeat against Chinese troops.

When, in 1517, he received the theses propounded by Luther, he exclaimed, “ Thanks be to God, at last they have found a man who will give them so much to do that they will be compelled to let my old age end in peace .”

From the summer of 1516 to the fall of 1518, Müntzer stayed in a monastery at Frohse, though publication of Martin Luther's 95 theses on 31 October 1517, most likely motivated Müntzer to leave the monastery and travel to Wittenberg.

A poem, Quhen the Governour Past in France, describing the departure of the Regent Albany for France in 1517 is attributed to Dunbar in the Maitland Manuscripts, suggesting that he was still active at the time.

* The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther in 1517, opposed practices of the Catholic Church at that time ( both a religion and a political territory ), and led to the establishment of Protestantism

The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas.

A few hours after this virtual dismissal ( which some say the cardinal did not have time to learn about ) Cardinal Cisneros died at Roa, on 8 November 1517.

He took his doctor's degree at Ferrara ( 1517 ), and spent some time in Rome, where he was ordained priest.

In June 1517 he was deciding disputes between English and French merchants at Calais, and in the same year he became chancellor of the order of the Garter.

* Henderson, Charles G. ( 1935 ) Helston The rules of a cobblers ' guild at Helston in 1517.

In the autumn of 1517, Duns Market Cross was also the destination of the head of the Sieur de la Bastie, the French Ambassador and Warden of the Eastern March, following his murder at Preston, by Home of Wedderburn.

He acquired the degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology in the University of Frankfurt an der Oder, 1517, and that of Doctor of Sacred Theology, 1518, by defending, in two disputations, the doctrine of indulgences against Luther.

Between 1517 and 1521, he went to the University of Cambridge.

* A History of the Franciscan Order: From Its Origins to the Year 1517 by John R. H. Moorman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ( 1968 ) ISBN 0-19-826425-9 ; reprint: Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, IL ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-8199-0921-1

It was finally reconstructed in its present Isabelline Gothic style under Cardinal Cisneros ( 1495 – 1517 ), the founder of the University.

The Reformation was started on 31 October 1517 by Martin Luther, who posted his 95 Theses criticizing the practice of indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, commonly used to post notices to the University community.

In 1517 Diego de Deza founded in Seville the " Colegio de Santo Tomás ", 15 years after Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella, who had founded the Colegio de Santa María de Jesus, initial nucleus of the actual University of Seville.

The phrase enkyklios paideia ( ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία ) was used by Plutarch and the Latin word Enciclopedia came from him. The first work titled in this way was the Encyclopedia orbisque doctrinarum, hoc est omnium artium, scientiarum, ipsius philosophiae index ac divisio written by Johannes Aventinus in 1517.

Then, it was published separately by Froben in 1517.

From an estimated initial population of 250, 000 in 1492, 14, 000 Arawaks were left by 1517.

A coherent treatise on anatomy was said to have been observed during a visit by Cardinal Louis ' D ' Aragon's secretary in 1517.

For Europe as a whole, 1500 is often considered to be the end of the Middle Ages, but there is no universally agreed upon end date ; depending on the context, events such as Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492, conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, or the Protestant Reformation in 1517 are sometimes used.

Portugal ’ s king Manuel I in 1517 commissioned a diplomatic and trade mission to Canton headed by Tomé Pires and Fernão Pires de Andrade.

* Asino d ' oro ( 1517 ) — The Golden Ass is a terza rima poem, a new version of the classic work by Apuleius.

Franciotto Orsini was created cardinal by Leo X in 1517.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses.

The first Belarusian book printed with the first printing press in the Cyrillic alphabet was published in Prague, in 1517, by Francysk Skaryna, a leading representative of the renaissance Belarusian culture.

The work continued between 1245 and 1517 and was largely finished by the architect Henry Yevele in the reign of Richard II.

* 1517 — Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires were chosen by Manuel I of Portugal to sail to China to formally open relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

* 1517 BC — The Heliacal rising of Sothis, a dating of the reign of Amenhotep I, followed by Thutmosis I.

After the decline of the Abbasids, parts of Jordan were ruled by various powers and empires including the Mongols, the Crusaders, the Ayyubids, the Mamlukes as well as the Ottomans, who captured major parts of the Arab World around 1517.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.

* A History of the Franciscan Order: From Its Origins to the Year 1517 by John Richard Humpidge Moorman, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1988.